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Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:33:11 GMTMy family and I will be going to Disneyland Paris over spring break. We're going to Europe as a gift to our Senior in high school. Disneyland Paris is the one thing I requested we do while we're there :mickey:This is our first time going. We've been to Disney World and Disneyland plenty of times, but was wondering how Disneyland Paris compared. We will be going to both parks for one day. Any suggestions or recommendations would be great if you've been! My kids are 18, 15, 13 but love Disney as well and have been going since they very little!:mickey:
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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:21:54 GMTHas anybody gone to any of the concerts)If you have. How long do they play? And is it the same show each set?Has anybody gone to any of the concerts)If you have. How long do they play? And is it the same show each set?
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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:10:05 GMTMay need to be moved. I apologize in advance. But I’m looking for something unique and tasty to snack on. I remember a couple years ago they had a macaroni and cheese and pot roast that you could get at I think friars tuck. Any other suggestions? At any park. Something tasty, unique any other...May need to be moved. I apologize in advance. But I’m looking for something unique and tasty to snack on. I remember a couple years ago they had a macaroni and cheese and pot roast that you could get at I think friars tuck. Any other suggestions? At any park. Something tasty, unique any other suggestions? At any park. Something tasty, unique. It could be a snack shop, or even at a restaurant.

Thank ya
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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 03:36:05 GMT:mickey: With the success of the Kingdom Hearts exhibit at Disney Springs this year, will they have Kingdom Hearts merchandise in Japan??:mickey: With the success of the Kingdom Hearts exhibit at Disney Springs this year, will they have Kingdom Hearts merchandise in Japan??
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Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:08:04 GMTI'm here right now in the Magic Kingdom been coming here for 20 years this is the most crowded I've ever been here. Thank goodness for Fastpass. Seven Dwarfs Mine ride is a wait time of two and a half hours. Even rides like the people-mover is 45 minutes. Rice like Haunted Mansion for 85 minutes. But if you like the tiki room you can get on that and 10.
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Sat, 16 Feb 2019 16:36:43 GMTEpcot is taking a look at some of the fine art made by Walt Disney Imagineer's you may have missed inside the American Adventure:

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Originally Posted by Disney Parks & Resorts

Most people are familiar with The American Adventure, but on the way to take a seat inside the stately theater, guests are likely to bypass a remarkable one-of-a-kind exhibit within the theater rotunda, featuring original art works by an utterly unique assembly of fine artists, motion picture designers, Disney Legends, and Academy Award winners.

One of the most peculiar conventional wisdoms about Disney is that somehow, because the medium is entertainment (and wildly popular), the art created for Disney is somehow “less than” or inferior, or not “fine art.”

“Many of the artists who worked at Disney Studios — and the other movie studios in the mid-20th century, and on up until today — were impeccably trained fine artists,” says Mary Platt, Director of the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. “In fact, a majority of them did fine art ‘on the side’ and continued to do so even after they took jobs at the movie studios. Mary Blair, for example, and her husband Lee, who both worked for Disney, began as fine artists who both graduated from Chouinard (now CalArts) and exhibited outstanding paintings. Eyvind Earle may be best known for his work on Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty,” and other animated features and shorts, but he also made a living as a fine art painter with a highly distinctive style. Herb Ryman graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Chicago, and Robert McCall was a very accomplished magazine illustrator whose work also appeared on U.S. postage stamps. Their talents were so expansive that even the movies couldn’t contain them.”

Here are some of those artists, and their original art pieces represented in The American Adventure:

“The Promise of America” is an epic interpretation of the American immigration experience by Disney Legend Herb Ryman a prime example of an artist who bridged the commercial and fine arts throughout his long career, with work in one sphere inspiring the other.Herb created the first overall illustration of Disneyland, working directly with Walt as he described his dream for a new kind of family entertainment, and continued to work on every Disney theme park until his passing in 1989. Rym an was also an exhibiting fine artist, a member (and president) of the California Art Club. He was particularly prolific in pen and ink, watercolor, and oil. His work was shown regularly in galleries as early as 1937 in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities. An educational enterprise that bears his name, Ryman Arts, teaches classical drawing and painting to talented and motivated high school students as a bridge to a lifetime that expresses and appreciates the arts.

“Westward Ho!” portrays a highly cinematic view of the European expansion into the American West, and it’s no surprise in that it is the work of multiple Oscar-winning production designer Jack Martin Smith. The artist joined MGM in 1937, and two years later found himself working as a production designer on “The Wizard of Oz.” He spent most of his working life at MGM on classics such as “Easter Parade,” “On the Town,” and “Show Boat.” Jack moved to 20th Century Fox, where his work included “Carousel,” “Cleopatra,” “Fantastic Voyage,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “M*A*S*H”; as well as TV series such as “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” “Lost in Space,” and “Batman.” His last film before his retirement was the 1977 Disney classic “Pete’s Dragon.”

“Giving Thanks” is a Rockwellian observation of the American family by Disney Legend Sam McKim, an artist whose career as a Walt Disney Imagineer included a generation of souvenir maps of Disneyland, and many drawings, sketches, and paintings for other Disney Parks and projects. Sam began as a popular child actor in numerous B-westerns in the 1930s, but as he approached adulthood decided to pursue a career in art. He joined WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) as an illustrator in 1954, the year before Disneyland opened. Among Sam’s first assignments were art works for attractions, shops, and restaurants on Main Street and in Frontierland, including the Golden Horseshoe Revue. He played a part in all of the Disney attractions at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair; as well as Hall of Presidents at the Magic Kingdom in Florida.

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Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:44:23 GMTHello everyone. I have a quick question about the Flower and Garden Festival. We'll be in WDW on the first and second days of the festival, leaving the 7th, later in the evening so we'll get almost a full day in the parks. We've never been during this particular festival time, so I'm wondering if things are up and running 100% right when it begins, or do these kinds of special events take a bit to get rolling? Just curious about what to expect and whether or not it will be worth it to try and fit in another day at Epcot just to experience Flower and Garden.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:16:44 GMTDuring peak Valentines Season (?) 2019, the Magic Kingdom is bringing back its popular Cinderella Coach set:

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Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:20:48 GMT:minnie::mickey3: I have not been to the Festival of the Arts, but started to watch vlogs to get an idea of what it's about. It was said in one of the vlogs that when there is something like this going on at EPCOT, the characters don't come out like usual. Are the performances and character meets changed during extra events such as this?
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Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:51:55 GMTA Musical Celebration of 'Coco' {or a show very similar} from Disney California Adventure is heading to Epcot:

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Originally Posted by Disney Parks Blog

... starting March 6, the tender story and vibrant music of Disney•Pixar’s “Coco” comes to the Mexico pavilion, courtesy of the incomparable Mariachi Cobre.

The immensely talented musicians of Mariachi Cobre are joined by a pair of Folklórico dancers to tell the tale of Miguel Rivera, his love of music, and his journey to find what matters most – his familia. The dancers perform to the music of the film, pulling everyone into the celebration, and Miguel himself appears in the form of a whimsical, hand-crafted puppet.

This new “Coco”-inspired show expands the repertoire of Mariachi Cobre, who will also continue enchanting guests at the Mexico pavilion with performances of traditional mariachi music.

The below is a publicity picture from the show at Disney California Adventure during the Fall of 2018:

The Celebration begins at about 5:15 (although I kind of enjoyed the prelude sound track :D )
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Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:17:47 GMT“¡Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas!”“¡Por favor manténgase alejado de las puertas!”
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Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:21:49 GMT...or EPCOT EPCOT MK MK. Dates in question are April 26-29, 2019. Not doing the other 2 parks at all, just wondering is it better to do the same park 2 days in a row or back n forth? I cant decide :confused:...or EPCOT EPCOT MK MK. Dates in question are April 26-29, 2019. Not doing the other 2 parks at all, just wondering is it better to do the same park 2 days in a row or back n forth? I cant decide :confused:
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Sun, 03 Feb 2019 16:37:10 GMTI want to surprise my DD with a Disney trip for her 13th birthday. Is the Food & Wine festival usually going on the last weekend of October or the first weekend of November??
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Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:57:15 GMTThe Magic Kingdom is highlighting the celebration for Mickey & Minnie's 90th along Main Street USA and in the Central Plaza:

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Originally Posted by Disney Parks & Resorts

“The ‘Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It!’ Street Party is a throwback to the Mickey Mouse Club, with wonderful music that everybody’s going to want to get up and dance to, and it’s contemporary at the same time. I think when [the characters] all come off the floats, guests are going to want to just jump in.”

Those characters include favorite Disney pals like Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy, Max, Pluto, Chip ‘n Dale, Clarice, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, José Carioca and Panchito – and of course, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse! And this is a MousekeDance party after all, so get ready to do the twist, the swim, the pony, the shimmy, the cool jerk, and the bird. And if you don’t know how, that’s okay. All the party peeps will show you!

Of course, this is a Surprise Celebration, so anything can happen! All along Main Street, U.S.A., the Dapper Dans, the Casey’s Corner piano player, the Main Street Philharmonic and the Citizens of Main Street get into the fun with special, musical surprise moments.